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8,500 to 10,000 nuclear warheads, including approximately 3,000 awaiting dismantlement

Pursued a covert biological weapons program during the Soviet era while a state party to the BTWC

Scheduled to complete destruction of its chemical weapons stockpile by December 2020

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